Flick Drummond


Felicia Jane Beatrix "Flick" Drummond is a British Conservative Party politician. She has been the Member of Parliament for Meon Valley since 2019, having previously represented Portsmouth South from 2015 to 2017.

Political career

Drummond sat on Winchester City Council from 1996 to 2000, before leaving to accompany her husband to work in the United States. Having returned in 2004, Drummond was selected to stand for Parliament in Southampton Itchen in 2005, coming second to Labour's John Denham. In the 2015 general election, she succeeded the incumbent, Mike Hancock as Member of Parliament in Portsmouth South, having come second to him in the 2010 general election.
Drummond stood on a platform opposed to Brexit.
She stated in 2016 that the referendum result diminished and would lessen Britain's influence in Europe.
She was a member of the Women and Equalities Select Committee: with Jess Phillips, she set up and chaired the Women and Work APPG. She also established the Cybersecurity APPG.
Drummond was defeated in a further marginal result at the 2017 general election, one of thirty net gains by the opposing Labour Party.
In November 2019, Drummond was selected as the prospective parliamentary candidate for safe Conservative seat of Meon Valley, in Eastern Hampshire. She returned to Parliament at the December 2019 general election after the incumbent George Hollingbery retired. She was then stood down as the Conservative candidate to become the Hampshire Police and crime commissioner in the 2020 England and Wales police and crime commissioner elections.
She is the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Anne-Marie Trevelyan as Secretary of State for International Development.

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